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To C. C. Babington 2 September [1862]
Summary
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3707 |
To K. E. S., L. C., and M. S. Wedgwood 4 [August 1862]
Summary
Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.
Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 4 [Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4373 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 2 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
To Sophy Wedgwood 24 March [1878–80]
Summary
Asks her to observe seedlings of Neottia breaking the surface to see whether the flower stems grow straight up or form arches, and whether they secrete water that softens the surrounding ground.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1878-80] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 4251: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11442 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Wedgwood, Sophy | (2) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Sophy | (2) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
